Tuesday 2nd February - Week 5

● Remember: NO LESSONS Tuesday 16th, Wednesday 17th, Thursday 18th

● More articles! Nouns and articles
10-15 minute BREAK
“Go to the loo / go to the toilet, make a cup of tea or coffee”

● Vocabulary: Jobs
● Speaking & Listening: Jobs

- Roles rules
- A curfew “There is a 9pm curfew”
- I passed all the controls - checks / tests

Review Quiz

1. My travel to college is so long. I have to spend 1 hour on the tube and

change 3 times - it’s a nightmare! Is this sentence correct? A
JOURNEY
2. I journeyed around South East Asia 10 years ago - where has the time
gone?! Is this sentence correct? TRAVELLED (to travel)
3. If you want to enhance your appearance with some botox or surgery, go for
it! Do you agree or disagree with this statement? “He’ll give you mates
rates”
4. I don’t think the government should be allowed to make people entering the
country pay for a quarantine hotel. Do you agree or disagree with this
statement? I agree
To prevent people from travelling. We are struggling with money
5. I fulfilled my ambition to travel around India. =to be successful/to do
something that you wanted to do.
6. Perhaps pubs and restaurants should re-open at the same time as schools.
What do you think? = Maybe 9 million 9, 000 900, 000
7. The growth of the economy has stopped because of COVID.
8. How much do you think a Picasso Picasso painting is worth? = value
9. Don’t go to any illegal parties - it’s not worth getting a fine from the police!
 10. If you work in a restaurant, or if you are an actor, this must be a really hard
time for you :( Is this sentence correct?

Nouns and Articles

I have so many books at home. I also have about 20 textbooks for teaching
English. Sometimes if I think I need a new textbook I’ll have a look online and see if
I can find a pirate copy of it. The book we’re using in class isn’t a pirate copy! The
college have paid for the software.

● ‘Book’ is a noun. Is it countable or uncountable?

1. You can find advice online about applying for a job.

2. The advice I got from the career advisor was really useful!
3. The weather has been so awful this week!
4. If you need information about COVID, go to the government website.

● ‘Advice’, ‘weather’ and ‘information’ are nouns. Are they countable or

uncountable?
Uncountable nouns:
● Do not use with ‘a/an’ eg. NOT “A weather in Spain is fantastic!”
● You can use with ‘the’ or no article.
● They do not have plurals
● They always need a singular verb eg. “The weather is nice.” NOT “The
weather are nice.”

Advice “a piece of” Homework “a piece of”

Weather Research
Traffic News “a piece of”
Behaviour Luck
Glass “a piece of” Luggage/baggage “a piece of”
Rubbish “a piece of” Equipment “a piece of”
Accommodation Toast “Can I have a piece/slice of
Health toast”
Furniture “a piece of” Paper “a piece/sheet of”
Light Politics/Economics/Athletics
Information “a piece of”

1. Which nouns can be countable or uncountable? For example: “glass” = the

material used to make windows is uncountable. “Glass is very fragile”
2. “A glass” = the thing you drink out of. “Can you bring me 5 glasses for the
wine!”
3. “There is so much light in this room” UNCOUNTABLE
4. “We have 3 lights on the ceiling in this room.” COUNTABLE
5. Which nouns can you use ‘a piece of’ with, to talk about an individual item?
 1. Some children at the school that I work at have no manners! = good
behaviour
2. Where are the clothes I left on the bed?
3. “Please place your belongings in the overhead locker.”

● ‘Manners’, ‘clothes’ and ‘belongings’ are examples of….

Plural nouns:
● Can’t be used with ‘a/an’
● You can use with ‘the’ or no article.
● They do not have a singular eg. NOT “Where are my clothe?”
● They always need a plural verb eg. “Manners are very important.” NOT
“Manners is very important.”
● If they consist of 2 parts/a double (eg. scissors, trousers, shorts, glasses, they
can be used with ‘a pair of’.)

Clothes
Manners
Belongings
Scissors
Trousers
Shorts
Glasses (that you wear)

● And finally….
Collective nouns
● You can use ‘a/an’, ‘the’ or no article.
● Describe groups of people or things
● You can use a singular or plural verb with these nouns BUT British English
prefers to use a plural verb (ARE) and American English prefers a singular
verb (IS).

The class is quite small today.

Audiences are very loud.
Community
Family
Crowd
Army
Company
Team
Staff
Crew
People
Men

Exceptions:

Police – always takes the plural: “Police are…” Always refer to the police as “they”.

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Extra practice:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/english-grammar-
reference/nouns